Many South African music lovers will flock to see R&B star Chris Brown perform in December. A man who assaulted pop superstar Rihanna in 2009, she was his girlfriend at the time. Unless you’ve been living under a rock these last few years, you know a few vivid details about the assault. You may have…

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Pumla Dineo Gqola is a feminist, Joziphile and author of What is Slavery to Me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa, published by Wits Press in 2010. She is @feminist_rogue on twitter and associate professor of African literary and gender studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.